Quotes By Billy Corgan

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

I'm not interested in pop art.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

I like my home and I like the nature.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

I don't want to be 25 again.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

I'm a green-tea guy.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

Most great records really start with the drums.